I can see the oncoming train at the end of the book-in-progress, so I’m going off the grid to try to finish a draft of the final chapter and introduction. Here’s something to think about while I’m away from the Internet: Choose one:online surveys For bonus points, defend your choice in the comments using only […]
Month: March 2011
Links for 2011-03-25
Smaller government, smaller dreams, smaller people | slacktivist “Consider this account of the rebuilding and re-engineering of Galveston. Consider the scope and audacity of the project — the cost, the labor, the years it took. Does any American city, or America itself, still have the courage, vision or capacity to attempt such a thing? I […]
Thursday Toddler Blogging 032411
SteelyKid would like to remind everybody that sometimes you just need to kick back on the couch, eat some snacks, and watch tv: In her case, that means watching the same episode of Good Eats over and over and over… Other times, of course, you need to get out and feel the wind in your […]
Links for 2011-03-24
The Procrastination Flowchart You Are Here (tags: internet pictures silly) Award-winning journalism job post | a few tasteful snaps “We want to add some talent to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune investigative team. Every serious candidate should have a proven track record of conceiving, reporting and writing stellar investigative pieces that provoke change. However, our ideal candidate […]
“Quantum Kitchen” Ought to Mean Something Else
I am less enthralled by the “molecular gastronomy” thing than someone with my geek credentials ought to be. As a result, I was a little disappointed when I clicked the link (from Jennifer Ouellette on Twitter) to this Wired story about a new tv show called Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen. Because, you know, there are much […]
Links for 2011-03-23
News: Tabloid Science – Inside Higher Ed “The Sex Life of the Screwworm — a silly subject for federally funded research, no? Some members of Congress thought so: they singled out the project about 30 years ago as the nation’s top symbol of wasteful spending — and later apologized when, upon further review, they realized […]
Wind Power Economics and the Ability to Focus
Kevin Drum re-posts a chart on wind power made by Stuart Staniford showing that the number of new wind power plants installed in 2010 was way lower than in 2009 or 2008: This is meant as a starting point for discussion about the big economic issues that might’ve caused this. One of the many, many […]
Links for 2011-03-22
How Josef Oehmen’s advice on Fukushima went viral – opinion – 21 March 2011 – New Scientist “So who exactly is Josef Oehmen and why did he write about the nuclear accidents in Japan? Oehmen agreed to tell New Scientist his side of the story – and it suggests that a minimum of research by […]
Advertising Reveals Our Culture
I’ve been watching a lot of basketball lately, and between the channel-flipping and occasional single-game windows, it has not been possible to use the DVR to avoid seeing commercials. Which means I’ve seen a lot of the current paradigm of advertising in America, which seems to consist of two main modes: Smug and “dickish”: The […]
Links for 2011-03-21
Awesome new physics blogs « Quantum Progress Because you need more things to read. (tags: blogs science physics internet) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal A foolproof strategy for making money, that I am sadly far too ethical to use. (tags: science physics quantum comics smbc) Radiation Dose Chart But… but… but… When do I get to […]